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Could a Birthright for high schoolers be in the offing?

Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has dropped hints that he and the Jewish Agency for Israel could be working on a plan to offer free or heavily subsidized trips to Israel for high school students from the Diaspora, according to the Jerusalem Post.

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Bob Aronson (Contact): What I’ve learned about raising money from Jews

The spring issue of Contact: The Journal of the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life enlists a dozen of the foremost thinkers on Jewish philanthropy to talk about the state of fund raising. With the Steinhardt Foundation’s permission, The Fundermentalist will republish over the next two weeks pieces from the likes of the foundation’s president, Bob Aronson, the president of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, Jeffrey Solomon, philanthropy guru Phyllis Cook and academic Amy Sales.

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Ex-Hadassah chief to become head of Birthright NEXT amid expansion

Birthright NEXT has announced new professional and lay leadership, among plans for expansion.

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Inside the Birthright matching grant

The Birthright Israel Foundation has announced a new matching grant program for 2010.

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Guest post: Other orgs can learn from post Birthright peer-to-peer success

As a JPost writer and the director of Birthright NEXT debate whether there is enough follow-up programing for the 220,000 alumni of Birthright Israel trips, the Jim Joseph Foundation’s Josh Miller says that other organizations can learn from what successful follow-up initiatives have found works:

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L.A. federation and Adelson’s Birthright match

The Jewish Federation of Los Angeles took advantage of Sheldon Adelson’s matching grant program, which expires at midnight on New Year’s Eve, to help shorten the waiting list for prospective Birthright Israel participants in the Los Angeles area.

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Sitting down with Sheldon Adelson

The Fundermentalist sat down with casino mogul Sheldon Adelson to discuss philanthropy, business, Israeli politics and why he likes ZOA.

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A GA pitch for Birthright

Susie Gelman, the former chairwoman of the Birthright Israel Foundation, and a major federation lay leader of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, and one of the official hostso fo this GA, just made a pitch for Birthright in front of a couple of thousand folks at the GA’s second plenary.

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Meadow Soprano talks up Birthright on Chelsea Lately

Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who played Meadow Soprano on the “Sopranos” and who now plays herself on another HBO show, “Entourage,” went on a Birthright trip last summer and was recently on television talking up the program. Good for the brand, but no… you can go on the trip even if you never had a bar or bat mitzvah.

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